| DATE: |
2010-10-12 11:00 - 12:00 |
| PLACE: |
Kenkyu Honkan 1F Meeting Room 1 |
| TITLE: |
The QCD nature of Dark Energy, signatures and applications |
| CONTACT: |
ISHIBASHI Akihiro, akihiro.ishibashi-AT-kek.jp |
| SPEAKER: |
Dr Federico Urban (Univ. British Columbia) |
| LANGUAGE: |
English |
| ABSTRACT: |
The origin of the observed dark energy could be explained entirely within the standard model, with no new fields required. I will review the ideas underlying the appearance of the Veneziano ghost oflow-energy QCD and show how nontrivial spacetimes (compact topologies and time-dependent background) give rise to interesting new effects such as Casimir energies and gravitational production of unphysical states. I will then discuss the cosmological applications of such effects (dark energy, generation of primordial magnetic fields) and the possible many ways for this proposal to be tested. |
